How much do you know about the human heart?

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Questions and Answers

What is the average number of times the human heart beats per day?

  • 50,000
  • 75,000
  • 100,000 (correct)
  • 125,000

What was Alan Turing's field of study?

  • Biology
  • Mathematics (correct)
  • Physics
  • Chemistry

What were some of the areas that Turing contributed to?

  • Philosophy and economics
  • Biology and medicine
  • Computer science and artificial intelligence (correct)
  • Physics and chemistry

Which of the following is NOT true about the heart?

<p>It is the largest muscle in the body. (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Where did Turing study mathematics?

<p>University of Cambridge (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the function of arteries, arterioles, and capillaries?

<p>To carry blood from the heart to the body (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was the title of Turing's seminal paper?

<p>&quot;On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem [Decision Problem]&quot; (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What did Turing show about formal systems of arithmetic?

<p>They have no effective decision method (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the universal Turing machine?

<p>An abstract computing machine that encapsulates the fundamental logical principles of the digital computer (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What was Turing's claim, now known as the Church-Turing thesis?

<p>Everything humanly computable can also be computed by the universal Turing machine (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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Study Notes

  • The human heart beats about 100,000 times per day.
  • It pumps 2,000 gallons of blood through the body daily.
  • The heart does more physical work than any other muscle over a lifetime.
  • The heart is located in the middle of the chest, between the lungs.
  • It pumps blood through the cardiovascular system.
  • Blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to every cell and removes waste products.
  • Arteries, arterioles, and capillaries carry blood from the heart to the body.
  • Venules and veins return blood to the heart.
  • The heart is no bigger than a large fist and weighs 8 to 12 ounces.
  • These facts were updated on January 31, 2020.

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